Superman #13 review

House of Brainiac continues, with most of the Super Family bottled by Brainiac and dragged into outer space. The conqueror from Colu sicced the last citizens of the planet Czarnia on Metropolis, along with his droid warriors, and the hit and run caught the heroes off guard. Superman, though, has an idea as to who […]

Outsiders #6 review

When this series was announced, ‘Outsiders’ seemed a bit of a random title, a nod to a well-liked comic series to get people to try it. But with this issue it becomes clear that, actually, Luke Fox, Kate Kane and Drummer are Outsiders. At least that’s what they become when Lucius Fox’s attempts to unlock […]

Action Comics #1064 review

Oh, now this is great! Not enough review for you? OK, a few details. It’s Saturday in Metropolis, Lois is having a rare day off and she has yoga on her mind. Yep, Superman is on patrol but soon he’s on the scene as Clark, the epitome of Hot Dork. He’s ready to show off […]

Ape-ril Special #1 review

Comic readers love apes. And chimpanzees. DC has known this for decades, relying on gorillas on covers to give individual issues a sales boost during the Silver Age of Comics. So here’s the latest example of gorillas amidst the comic shop shelves, an Ape-Ril Special that is, appropriately enough, bananas. I was expecting an 80pp […]

The Batman & Scooby-Doo! Mysteries #4 review

One of the great things about comic books is that they’re educational, teaching voracious readers such useful words as ‘invulnerable’, ‘telekinesis’, ‘excelsior’, ‘tatterdemalion’ and, if you’re reading Hitman at far too young an age, ‘defenestrate’. And in this latest issue of the series teaming the Gotham Goliath with Crystal Cove’s greatest teen detectives, I learned […]

Shazam! #10 review

Dan Mora’s wonderful cover promises good things – just look at that cutaway shot of the Shazam Family’s new house, with all sorts of fun things happening. Inside things are actually crazier as the new property Rosa and Victor Vasquez have managed to finance for them and their foster kids proves even busier than that […]

The Flash #7 review

What a difference an artist makes. Mike Deodato Jr isn’t around this time after handling the first six issues of the latest Flash run. Filling the breach is Ramon Perez, whose art is mostly pretty good, but so far off the established style of the series that it’s jarring. Where Deodato crowded the pages with […]

Green Arrow #10 review

Green Arrow has agreed to help Amanda Waller retrieve the secrets of Sanctuary, the disastrous superhero therapy centre which aimed to help Heroes in Crisis. Waller being a homicidal megalomaniac these days, Ollie’s not exactly in her corner, he aims to rescue the last hero she recruited/coerced into going into sanctuary – Ollie’s ward Roy, […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #25 review

Twenty-five issues. How often does a comic book of the high quality we’ve seen in World’s Finest over the last two years manage to continue being published? But here’s writer Mark Waid and guest artist Steve Pugh with an extra-length celebration story and, wouldn’t you know it, it’s thoroughly entertaining. The surprise is that instead […]

Superman #12 review

Holy role reversal, Luthor takes to the streets of Metropolis in his power suit to save the citizens while Superman dons a nifty lab suit to attack their problems from another direction. Their problems are Dr Pharm, a cloud of green kryptonite tweaked to kill regular human beings and Lex’s mad mother Leticia. The first […]